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  1. We conducted a comparative cross-sectional study in 2014 on a total of 356 mothers who lost their children and 712 mothers with alive children. We measured CMD symptoms using the World Health Organization’s (WHO’...

    Authors: Girma Temam Shifa, Ahmed Ali Ahmed and Alemayehu Worku Yalew
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2018 18:44
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Gender-based violence is an act that has physical, psychological, and sexual consequences for women. It is a widespread issue, particularly in developing countries, and it causes women mental distress. Despite...

    Authors: Jerusalem Sewalem and Alemayehu Molla
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:187
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  3. Despite the high burden of perinatal depression in Nepal, the detection rate is low. Community-based strategies such as sensitization programmes and the Community Informant Detection Tool (CIDT) have been found t...

    Authors: Prasansa Subba, Petal Petersen Williams, Nagendra Prasad Luitel, Mark J. D. Jordans and Erica Breuer
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:273
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  4. No studies illustrating the coping behaviors of mothers experiencing physical and mental subjective symptoms, or the factors that contribute to these behaviors, have been investigated. Therefore, the present s...

    Authors: Misato Kaso, Kikuko Miyazaki and Takeo Nakayama
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2018 18:14
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  5. Pregnancy complications affect over one quarter of Australian pregnancies, and this group of mothers is vulnerable and more likely to experience adverse cardiometabolic health outcomes in the postpartum period. M...

    Authors: Emily Aldridge, K. Oliver Schubert, Maleesa Pathirana, Susan Sierp, Shalem Y. Leemaqz, Claire T. Roberts, Gustaaf A. Dekker and Margaret A. Arstall
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:461
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  6. Two main health issues, mental health and long-term pain, were reflected upon ... of analysis: Prioritising spare time to promote mental health and Collaboration to address healthcare dissatisfaction related ... ...

    Authors: Cecilia Lindsjö, Katarina Sjögren Forss, Christine Kumlien and Margareta Rämgård
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:365
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  7. Childlessness among Australian women is increasing. Despite this, little is known about the physical and mental health and wellbeing of childless women, particularly during ... were to: 1) describe the physical a...

    Authors: Melissa L Graham, Erin Hill, Julia M Shelley and Ann R Taket
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2011 11:47
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  10. Substantial research has found that women assess their health as poor relative to men, but the ... understood. Military women are characterised by good health and the ability to work in an ... studies on the gend...

    Authors: Elin Anita Fadum, Leif Åge Strand, Monica Martinussen, Laila Breidvik, Nina Isaksen and Einar Borud
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2019 19:119
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  11. We studied women enrolled in Pennsylvania's Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) program, linking prescription claims with data from a longitudinal mail survey. HRQOL measures included the nu...

    Authors: Debra A Heller, Carol H Gold, Frank M Ahern, Kristine E Pringle, Theresa V Brown and Margaret R Glessner
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2005 5:7
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  12. Pro-health behaviours aim at disease prevention, recovery from an illness and maintenance of good health in a physical, mental and social sphere. The study had two main objectives: (a) to analyse health behaviour...

    Authors: Anna B. Pilewska-Kozak, Klaudia Pałucka, Celina Łepecka-Klusek, Grażyna Stadnicka, Krzysztof Jurek and Beata B. Dobrowolska
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2020 20:71
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  13. Stress urinary incontinence (SUI), which causes involuntarily leakage of urine, has an impact on many women and may affect self-efficacy, which, in turn, can lead to poor health-related quality of life (QOL). ...

    Authors: Ching Hui Chien, Xuan Yi Huang, Shu Pen Hsu, Yi Hua Yen, Hun Shan Pan and Feng Chu Yen
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:444
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  15. Compared with non-menstrual migraine patients, five dimensions of health-related quality of life were all found...P = 0.014), the impact of headache on daily life (ß = − 0.270, P = 0.002), depression symptoms (ß ...

    Authors: Wenxiu Luo, Xing Cao, Jiayu Zhao, Jiaming Yang, Yu Cen, Jinlong He, Jing Luo, Yunling Zhong, Ying Luo, Xinyue Wang, Liqiu Yang, Xingyu Feng, Xiaoqing Pang, Jiazhu Zhang and Jiaming Luo
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:177
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  16. We examined narratives of civilian reintegration among women veterans to understand their experiences of adjusting to community life while coping with mental health challenges.

    Authors: Nicholas A. Rattray, Diana Natividad, Katrina Spontak, Marina Kukla, Ai-Nghia L. Do, Leah Danson, Richard M. Frankel and Gala True
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:665
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  17. There are complicated mechanisms that link the disruption of the gut microbiome to the symptoms and complications of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). In this study, an attempt was made to assess the effects o...

    Authors: Zahra Hariri, Zahra Yari, Sedighe Hoseini, Khadijeh Abhari and Golbon Sohrab
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:19
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  18. At the end of the intervention, there was no significant difference in the percentages of weight loss between the two groups (PCOS: 6.29 ± 3.32% vs. non-PCOS: 7 ± 3.62%, p = 0.1). At baseline, women with PCOS had...

    Authors: Farnaz Shishehgar, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani and Setareh Vahidi
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:532
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  19. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine-metabolic disorder affecting health and quality of life of those affected across the lifespan. We currently have limited evidence-based data on the...

    Authors: Beate C. Sydora, Michaelann S. Wilke, Maggie McPherson, Sarah Chambers, Mahua Ghosh and Donna F. Vine
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:569
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  20. The mean (±SD) age of participants was 33.87± 8.95 years. Eighty-eight women (40%) had a university degree with a mean (±SD) official education of 10.8 (±4.9) years. The results indicated that employed women scor...

    Authors: Fatihe Kerman Saravi, Ali Navidian, Shahindokht Navabi Rigi and Ali Montazeri
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2012 12:41
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  21. Menopause is the time that marks passing 12 months after the last menstruation cycle in women between ages 40–50. Menopausal women often experience depression and insomnia that significantly impact their overa...

    Authors: Hagar E. Lialy, Malak A. Mohamed, Latifa A. AbdAllatif, Maria Khalid and Abdulrahman Elhelbawy
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:363
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2023 23:419

  22. This is an Australian population-based descriptive study with linked data from the New South Wales Midwives Data Collection and Admitted Patients Data Collection. The study population included primiparous mothers...

    Authors: Fenglian Xu, Elizabeth A Sullivan, Zhuoyang Li, Lucy Burns, Marie-Paule Austin and Tim Slade
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2014 14:119
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Promoting a favorable experience of postpartum care has become increasingly emphasized over recent years. Despite the fact that maternal health care services have improved over the years, postnatal care servic...

    Authors: Iranfachisa Gurmu Amana, Eden Girmaye Tefera, Eshetu Ejeta Chaka and Gizachew Abdissa Bulto
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:79
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  24. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the health and well-being of people worldwide, yet ... HIV status and different psychosocial stressors affected their mental health.

    Authors: Samantha A. Devlin, Amy K. Johnson, Moira C. McNulty, Olivier L. Joseph, André Hall and Jessica P. Ridgway
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:218
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  25. Gynaecological cancer survivors may develop lower limb lymphoedema after surgery, which negatively impacts quality of life. The purposes of this study were (1) to assess the levels of symptom distress, depress...

    Authors: Kuei-An Cho, Ming-Huei Cheng, Whei-Mei Shih and Shu-Ching Chen
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:200
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  26. The most commonly recorded preventive services included blood pressure screening, screening for Hepatitis A and B, Tetanus-Diphtheria-Pertussis vaccination, Pneumococcal pneumonia vaccination, substance abuse scr...

    Authors: Sara E Simonsen, Deanna Kepka, Joan Thompson, Echo L Warner, Maggie Snyder and Kristen M Ries
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2014 14:37
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. The current work aimed to investigate the mediating role of adiposity traits in the relationship between eating behaviors, sleep quality, socio-demographic factors, and the health-related quality of life in wo...

    Authors: Mahdieh Khodarahmi, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi, Sahar Khoshro and Parvin Dehghan
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:395
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  28. In addition to an increased risk for chronic illnesses, obese individuals suffer from social stigmatization and discrimination, and severely obese people may experience greater risk of impaired psychosocial an...

    Authors: Sadaf Koohkan, Denise Schaffner, Brandy J Milliron, Ingrid Frey, Daniel König, Peter Deibert, Mara Vitolins and Aloys Berg
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2014 14:45
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. The health of females is more at risk during disasters. Studies that focus on the comparison of males and time span are few. This article focuses on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of female victims...

    Authors: Ying Liang and Runxia Cao
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2014 14:18
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  30. Stress in participants’ lives related to settling in, loneliness, finances and spousal relationships. Of these, relationship conflict was the largest source of stress. Women largely embraced self-coping strategie...

    Authors: Naomi Tschirhart, Melanie Straiton, Trygve Ottersen and Andrea S. Winkler
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2019 19:139
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  31. A total of 1882 surveys were completed. Among the respondents, 53.3% declared that their PA was reduced during the pandemic, 26.6% reported similar PA behavior, and 20.1% declared that their PA had increased duri...

    Authors: Catherine Stratton, Maryam Fourtassi, Ioana Ramia, Uma Pandiyan, Rory Cooper, Abderrazak Hajjioui, Andrei Krassioukov, Mark D. Peterson, Joseph K Balikuddembe, Angela Palomba, Bo-Young Hong, Deo Rishi Tripathi, Yetsa A Tuakli-Wosornu and Laura Paulina Muñoz Velasco
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:254
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  32. We selected a sample of 22,398 women who had returned self-completed questionnaires from a Finnish population-based health survey between 2013 and 2016. Exposure to ... ordinary least square regressions were fitt...

    Authors: Tomomi Hisasue, Marie Kruse, Jani Raitanen, Eija Paavilainen and Pekka Rissanen
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2020 20:85
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  33. HIV infection and its sequelae continue to be a significant challenge among women and their families in developing countries despite the progress that has been made in the prevention and treatment of HIV. This pa...

    Authors: Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Lillian Mwanri, Karen Hawke, Maria Silvia Merry, Gregorius Abanit Asa and Paul Russell Ward
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:172
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  35. Task shifting is a well-tested implementation strategy within low- and middle-income countries that addresses the shortage of trained mental health personnel. Task shifting can increase access to care for patient...

    Authors: Obadia Yator, Lincoln Khasakhala, Grace-John Stewart and Manasi Kumar
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:240
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  36. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between quality of life (QoL) with anxiety, depression, corona disease anxiety, sexual function (SF), and marital satisfaction (MS) in married women during the ...

    Authors: Zahra Daneshfar, Shahideh Jahanian Sadatmahalleh, Samaneh Youseflu, Mahnaz Bahri Khomami and Anoshiravan Kazemnejad
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:102
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  37. Women’s physical and mental ill-health such as stress-related symptoms, depression, pain, hypertension and urogenital health shows a marked increase around the ages ... These women are an important group for Prim...

    Authors: Lena Rindner, Gunilla Strömme, Lena Nordeman, Margareta Wigren, Dominique Hange, Ronny Gunnarsson and Gun Rembeck
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2017 17:128
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  38. Women’s primary need for health behavior promotion pertained to their fat and ... and physical activity; for some, to their mental health (practices), fruit and vegetable intake, ... include, in descending order:...

    Authors: Lili L. Kókai, Marte F. van der Bijl, Martin S. Hagger, Diarmaid T. Ó Ceallaigh, Kirsten I.M. Rohde, Hans van Kippersluis, Alex Burdorf, Johannes J. Duvekot, Jeanine E. Roeters van Lennep and Anne I. Wijtzes
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:427
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2023 23:9

  39. The current conflict in Syria continues to displace thousands to neighboring countries, including Lebanon. Information is needed to provide adequate health and related services particularly to women in this di...

    Authors: Amelia Reese Masterson, Jinan Usta, Jhumka Gupta and Adrienne S Ettinger
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2014 14:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. In the recent years, the number of Syrians living in Germany increased drastically due to the massive displacement caused by the Syrian conflict. Syrian migrant women in Germany are challenged by both the migr...

    Authors: Salma Kikhia, Ghaith Gharib, Alexandra Sauter, Natalia Caldeira Loss Vincens and Julika Loss
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:50
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a major health issue that can affect both mothers and their newborn children. In Vietnam, approximately 20% of mothers suffer from PPD. However, there is a lack of synthesized ev...

    Authors: Huyen Thi Hoa Nguyen, Phuong Anh Hoang, Thi Kim Ly Do, Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson and Thi Thanh Huong Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2023 23:391
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  42. The review strategy was formulated using the PICo (Population, phenomenon of Interest, and Context) framework with Boolean operators (AND/OR/NOT) to ensure rigour in the use of search terms (“postpartum depressio...

    Authors: Dung Ezekiel Jidong, Nusrat Husain, Ayesha Roche, Grace Lourie, Tarela J. Ike, Maisha Murshed, Miriam S. Park, Haruna Karick, Zubairu K. Dagona, Juliet Y. Pwajok, Anil Gumber, Christopher Francis, Pam P. Nyam and Shadrack B. Mwankon
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:83
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) causes non-cyclical pelvic pain, period pain, fatigue and other painful symptoms. Current medical and surgical management strategies are often not sufficient to manage these symptoms ...

    Authors: Astha Malik, Justin Sinclair, Cecilia H. M. Ng, Caroline A. Smith, Jason Abbott and Mike Armour
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:37
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  44. Men and women from 12 villages participated in the Community Empowerment Drawings within each workshop, with 234 participants total. Results were stratified into two categories which were later broken down into n...

    Authors: Elizabeth A. Wood, Karina E. Wilson and K. D. Jacobs
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:91
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2021 21:125

  45. The combination of child care and domestic work demands on both housewives and the employed (hired) women may impact their health-related quality-of-life. There is paucity of studies to ascertain this. This st...

    Authors: Anthonia U. Chinweuba, Ijeoma L. Okoronkwo, Agnes N. Anarado, Noreen E. Agbapuonwu, Ngozi P. Ogbonnaya and Chikaodili N. Ihudiebube-Splendor
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2018 18:13
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Despite pregnant women's vulnerability to respiratory illnesses and pregnancy complications during the COVID-19 pandemic, research on its psychological impact in the study area, is limited.

    Authors: Meka Kedir Jibril, Ahmed Adem Yimam, Neima Ridwan Abdu and Seid Yimam Ali
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:270
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  47. Analysis revealed three salient themes regarding the health and social impact of not being believed ... Loss of Self, and (3) Cumulative Health and Social Effects. The findings showed that ... not being believed ...

    Authors: Karen McQueen, Jodie Murphy-Oikonen, Ainsley Miller and Lori Chambers
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2021 21:217
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Women's Health 2021 21:232

  48. In the literature, professions that impose body standards for daily performance are designated as non-conventional professions (i.e. models, athletes, ballet dancers), with great emphasis on the female population...

    Authors: Salime Chedid Lisboa, Alexandra Vieira, Juliana Lopes Teodoro, Rochelle Costa, Franccesco Pinto Boeno, Juliano Farinha, Cláudia Gomes Bracht, Álvaro Reischak-Oliveira and Giovani dos Santos Cunha
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2022 22:15
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  50. The themes influencing participants’ pregnancy experiences (aim 1) were participants’ feelings about being pregnant, the responsibilities of motherhood, physical and mental health challenges, unstable social supp...

    Authors: Larske M. Soepnel, Khuthala Mabetha, Shane A. Norris, Molebogeng Motlhatlhedi, Nokuthula Nkosi, Sonja Klingberg, Stephen Lye and Catherine E. Draper
    Citation: BMC Women's Health 2024 24:161
    Content type: Research Published on:
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